Development of new reaction methods of broad utility, enantioselective catalysis and the synthesis of natural products and biologically important molecules.

Total synthesis.

Catalytic enantioselective processes of broad utility to organic and medicinal chemists.

Identification of natural products with interesting, often novel, structures and useful biological properties that may lead to medicinal agents for treatment of cancer, cardiovascular disorders and infectious diseases.

Syntheses of natural and unnatural products that are of biological or structural interest.

Development of bidentate Lewis acid chemistry. Molecular design of chiral phase-transfer catalysts. Precise design of bowl-shaped artificial enzymes. Hypercoordination chemistry. Development of new radical reaction processes and novel methodologies.

Development of new, creative methods and strategies in organic synthesis. Construction of a novel type of DNA binding molecules.

Studies conjugated polymers, physisorbed monolayers and crystal polymorphism.

Kinetic studies of carbocation-carbanion combinations.

Applications of organometallic chemistry to problems in materials deposition, methodology for organic synthesis, and catalysis.

Molecular glycosciences: complex glycoconjugate synthesis and carbohydrate-based molecular recognition.

Natural product synthesis, synthetic methods development, and design of new transition metal catalyzed reactions.

Mechanisms of chemical reactions in aquatic environments: photochemistry in surface waters with an emphasis on reactive oxygen species and metal-mediated dehalogenation reactions.

Development of new materials for one-vessel multi-step synthesis.

Exploiting organic and organometallic chemistry to solve problems in materials science and biology.

Chemistry, bioorganic chemistry of marine natural products with novel structural and biological properties.

New reactions involving nickel catalysis.

Synthetic macromolecular chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and material sciences.

Stereoselective organic reactions, synthesis of enantiomerically pure compounds and natural product syntheses.

Enantioselective laboratory synthetic route(s) to the tetracycline antibiotics.